Word from the Rector – “The Seculosity Creed”

Aren’t you glad that we have the Nicene Creed as part of our worship every Sunday? I mean if you are not going to believe this, then what are you going to believe? What alternatives are there?

The American writer and cultural commentator, David Zahl, in a spirit of play and confession, wrote “The Seculosity Creed ” a piece of “sub-Nicene ridiculousness” in which he presents what our modern secular age offers us by way of faith and hope commitments to live by, which may obtain even here north of the border, and in moments of weakness, draw us in. Hope you enjoy it, as much as I did.

We believe in One Self, The Authentic and Improving, Arbiter of the Real and Enough.Of all that is, both Online and IRL.

For our tribe, and our tribe onlyTom became vulnerableDelivered and Oprah approved TED TalkAnd achieved Work Life Balance.For our sake he was pilloried on social mediaGained Weight and was cancelled.A few news cycles later he started trending again.In accordance with admissions standardsHis daughter was accepted at StanfordWhere she now studies Sustainable EntrepreneurshipHe will run for Office one day ,to redeem the Millelial and the BoomerAnd his haters will be forever Silenced.

We believe in the True Diet, the Biohack, the Source of All omega 3sWhich proceeds carb-less from the Compost,Which with Fizzy Water is devoured thenInstagrammedWhere it is shared with Gwyneth Paltrow.

We believe in One Pure and Non- Problematic PoliticsWe acknowledge the Permanence of Other People’s MistakesWe look for the Upward Mobility of our ChildrenAnd of the Promised Singularity.